Group decision-making methods based on hesitant N-soft sets

•We introduce the new hybrid model called hesitant N-soft sets.•We investigate their properties and define fundamental operations on them.•The concept of hesitant N-soft set is illustrated with real life examples.•This model provides additional justification of the notion of hesitancy. In this artic...

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Published inExpert systems with applications Vol. 115; pp. 95 - 105
Main Authors Akram, Muhammad, Adeel, Arooj, Alcantud, José Carlos R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2019
Elsevier BV
Subjects
Decision making
Economics
Environmental science
Hesitant fuzzy set
Hesitant N-soft set
N-soft set
Ordered grades
Probability
Soft set
Decision-making
03B52
94D05
Soft set
Hesitant fuzzy set
03E05
Hesitant N-soft set
Ordered grades
N-soft set
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Summary:•We introduce the new hybrid model called hesitant N-soft sets.•We investigate their properties and define fundamental operations on them.•The concept of hesitant N-soft set is illustrated with real life examples.•This model provides additional justification of the notion of hesitancy. In this article, we introduce a new hybrid model called hesitant N-soft sets by a suitable combination of hesitancy with N-soft sets, a model that extends N-soft sets. Our novel concept is illustrated with real life examples. Moreover, we investigate some useful properties of hesitant N-soft sets and construct fundamental operations on them. We describe potential applications of hesitant N-soft sets in group decision-making, and finally we present some group decision-making methods as algorithms.
ISSN:0957-4174
1873-6793
DOI:10.1016/j.eswa.2018.07.060